Easter 2009

April 2009

With Easter approaching, the kids participated in a few egg hunts - the first being a Mom's Club one that my neighbor friend invited us to.

Aunt Gina came down one day and we colored lots of eggs.

Elise was pretty amazed. She did a great job of making a mess - a trademark of hers.

This became known as the "monster hand". It stayed fairly green for a couple of days. We'd ask her to show us her monster hand and she knew just what we were talking about and often included some "scary" sound effects.

Ava was a little more into the process this year so we got some stickers and other things out to personalize our eggs.

Gina hid some eggs out in our front yard for the girls to find.

Elise is particularly attached to Aunt Gina and was very sad when she left. She kept coming up to me and saying, "Gina gone!" and was sad.



EASTER MORNING
Easter morning was nice - the girls woke up and saw that the Easter Bunny had indeed rememebered to hop by.

The Easter Bunny knows how to keep it real and not go overboard at our house...although the girls got some fun things including a movie, books, ONE thing of candy each, and a few little toys.

DRESSES

I don't care what anyone says - I like to dress my little girls in matching outfits. :) I made these dresses for them as part of a sewing class by my friend Kathleen and finished them in time for them to be the girls' Easter dresses.
Easter Sunday we went to church in the morning, came home for some rest time and then celebrated with extended family in the late afternoon/evening.

We were able to snap a few pictures of ALL EIGHT of my parents' grandchildren. Can you tell which ones are from the same family? Four sets of parents: one with three, two with two and one with one.